In exchange for the plea, the Knox County prosecutor dropped two other charges: complicity to
commit murder and a second aggravated-arson charge. Pilotti agreed to testify against her
co-defendant, Jedidiah Lang.

Investigators say Lang killed 52-year-old Bradley Grosscup on Feb. 14 during an argument in
Grosscup’s apartment. Detectives believe that Grosscup let Lang and Pilotti move in with him
because they were homeless.

Investigators say Lang assaulted Grosscup with a pool cue and then put him in a chokehold to
keep him from leaving the apartment. An autopsy found that he had been strangled. Detectives say
Pilotti then used hairspray and a lighter to set fire to a couch where Grosscup’s body lay.

Lang, 32, is charged with murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, aggravated arson
and gross abuse of a corpse. He remains in jail.